Garrey Carruthers

Garrey Carruthers (29 August 1939-) was Governor of New Mexico (R) from 1 January 1987 to 1 January 1991, succeeding Toney Anaya and preceding Bruce King.

Biography
Garrey Carruthers was born in Alamosa, Colorado in 1939, and he went to college in New Mexico. He became an academic, and he served as a special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture from 1974 to 1975, director of the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute at New Mexico State University, state chair of the Republican Party from 1977 to 1979, and assistant Secretary of the Interior for land and resources from 1981 to 1984. In 1986, he was elected Governor of New Mexico, and he supported the reintroduction of the death penalty. He was term-limited, so he left office in 1991. From 2013 to 2018, he went on to serve as Chancellor of NMSU, and he was controversial for saying that there was no scientific consensus on climate change.